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[EarthNSky <erthnsky AT bellsouth.net>]

A little bit ago, I opened the door to turn on the porch Christmas
lights.  It is a drizzling, foggy night, just miserable, so I did not go
hunting today. I saw some movement near the trucks, and my first thought
was that it was a cat.  It may have been a cat, but I'm not real sure.
No one around here has a cat, but I suppose one could have been dropped
off.  It was headed towards my chicken tractor, so I ran and got the
nearest weapon, my .22.  As I grabbed it, I thought, maybe I need the
223-could have been a fox-then thought, no, it was a cat,,,,22 is
fine.....so I grabbed the gun and went out on the deck, but did not see
the 'cat'.  In 10 seconds, it had disappeared.  I walked through my
front yard to the driveway, looking for whatever it was, when my eye
caught movement in the pasture....a deer!! I ran back in the house to
get the deer rifle, but by the time I got back out there, the deer has
disappeared into the mist and dark.  I walked to the road, hoping to
spook the deer out of its hiding place, but never saw him again...it was
too dark to see anything-too dark to hunt.
Feeling like I lost out twice, I walked back up the house in the dark,
rifle slung over my shoulder.  Just as I approached my back door, I
heard a commotion behind the house...3 deer or more ran up the hill...
Strike three.
I shoulda grabbed the deer rifle instead of the 22.
I coulda had at least one deer.
I woulda had my first kill.
Just my luck.
Now, tomorrow, I know where I am going to be...I am going to be at the
bottom of that hill!!

B

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“Fear is the path to the Dark Side. Fear leads to anger. Anger leads to
hate. Hate leads to suffering.”        Yoda